1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China

1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China
ISBN-10
1472583434
ISBN-13
9781472583437
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
2016-02-25
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Authors
Paul Edmondson, Tian Yuan Tan, Shih-pe Wang

Description

The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has just died and the world of the London theatres is mourning his loss. 1616 also saw the death of the famous Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years on and Shakespeare is now an important meeting place for Anglo-Chinese cultural dialogue in the field of drama studies. In June 2014 (the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth), SOAS, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the National Chung Cheng University of Taiwan gathered 20 scholars together to reflect on the theatrical practice of four hundred years ago and to ask: what does such an exploration mean culturally for us today? This ground-breaking study offers fresh insights into the respective theatrical worlds of Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu and asks how the brave new theatres of 1616 may have a vital role to play in the intercultural dialogue of our own time.

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